Faraday to Margaret Brodie Herschel¹   21 May 1860

Margaret Brodie Herschel, née Stewart (1810-1884, ODNB under J.F.W. Herschel). Married John Herschel on 3 March 1829, see his ODNB entry.

These would have been lectures by the Professor of Geology at King’s College, David Thomas Ansted (1814-1880, ODNB), on geography, by the lecturer on Botany at St Mary’s Hospital, Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828-1886, ODNB), on mammals and by the Professor of Chemistry at Royal Military Academy, Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902, ODNB), on explosives. Respectively RI MS Le4/233, 232, 234.